[c++] LPCSTR, LPCTSTR and LPTSTR

To answer the second part of your question, you need to do things like

LV_DISPINFO dispinfo;  
dispinfo.item.pszText = LPTSTR((LPCTSTR)string);

because MS's LVITEM struct has an LPTSTR, i.e. a mutable T-string pointer, not an LPCTSTR. What you are doing is

1) convert string (a CString at a guess) into an LPCTSTR (which in practise means getting the address of its character buffer as a read-only pointer)

2) convert that read-only pointer into a writeable pointer by casting away its const-ness.

It depends what dispinfo is used for whether or not there is a chance that your ListView call will end up trying to write through that pszText. If it does, this is a potentially very bad thing: after all you were given a read-only pointer and then decided to treat it as writeable: maybe there is a reason it was read-only!

If it is a CString you are working with you have the option to use string.GetBuffer() -- that deliberately gives you a writeable LPTSTR. You then have to remember to call ReleaseBuffer() if the string does get changed. Or you can allocate a local temporary buffer and copy the string into there.

99% of the time this will be unnecessary and treating the LPCTSTR as an LPTSTR will work... but one day, when you least expect it...

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